Papers & Projects

My work is applied, involving large-scale data analysis and field-experiments.

Boudreau, K. and L. Jeppesen. Unpaid Complementors and Platform Network Effects. (Evidence from Online Videogames)

Boudreau, K. and K. Lakhani. 'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting of Creative Workers and Performance.

Boudreau, K. (forthcoming). Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software “Apps” Developers and Patterns of Innovation. Organization Science.

Boudreau, K., K. Lakhani, and N. Lacetera (2011). Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis. Management Science. 57(5) 843-863.

Boudreau, K. and K. Lakhani (forthcoming) The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort. J. Lerner and S. Stern (eds.), The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, 50th Anniversary Volume (forthcoming).

Boudreau, K. 2010 Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control. Management Science. 56(10) 1849-1872.

Boudreau, K. and A. Hagiu. 2009. Platforms Rules: Multi-sided Platforms as Regulators. A. Gawer, ed. Platforms, Markets and Innovation. Edward Elgar, London.

Boudreau, K. and K. Lakhani. 2009. How to Manage Outside Innovation: Competitive Markets or Collaborative Communities? MIT Sloan Management Review vol. 50 (4) pp. 69-75.

Selected Projects

The following is a selection of projects where, at least, data are collected or the experiment has already been completed and the analysis is on-going or nearing completion:

Boudreau, K. and K. Lakhani. 2011. Does the Intellectual Property Regime Affect the Diversity of Innovation? Evidence from a Genomics Experiment with Competing Solvers (Unpublished manuscript)
"Matching" of Innovation Partners

Team formation in T1 Diabetes research: A Field Experiment at the Harvard Medical School

The Genesis of Collaboration: An Exploration Using Randomized Assignment to Teams and Incentive Regimes

Cumulative Innovation on PDA & Smartphone Platforms

The Matching of the "Crowd" to the Problem in Scientific Problem-Solving

Appstore innovation, various

Case Studies

"Fubles.com" (with Andrea Blasco) (2011)

"Space Tourism: An Industry in Ferment and Astrium's Strategic Investment Decision" (with S.
Francioli) (2010)

"Palm (A): The Debate on Licensing Palm’s OS (1997)." Harvard Business School Case 708-514. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell)

"Palm (B): 2001." HBS Supplement 708-515. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell)

"Palm (C): 2005." HBS Supplement 708-516. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell)

"Palm (D): Epilogue as of 2008." HBS Supplement 708-517. (with R. Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell)

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